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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Gentlemen, Philadelphia June 3. 1780 I have the honour herewith to enclose for your Information the Report of a Committee of Conference with the Assembly and Supreme Executive Council of this State, as also an Act of Congress of the first Instant respecting Supplies which any State may furnish more than its Quota; And it is with Pleasure I add that since this Conference, the Assembly and Executive Council have adopted such farther Acts and Orders as seem to promise; and if duly executed cannot fail; of Success in procuring speedy Supplies.(1)
I have the honour to be, with the highest regard Gentln your hbble servant, Sam Huntington President
RC (DNA: PCC, item 39). In a clerical hand and signed by Huntington.
1 For the work of the committee appointed to confer with the assembly and council of Pennsylvania, see Committee of Congress to the Pennsylvania Council, May 31, 1780. See also the following entry. The "Act of Congress of the first Instant" enclosed by Huntington is in JCC, 17:480; and PCC, item 39, 2:75-76. The committee report upon which this resolve was based is in PCC, item 19, 6:283-86, and JCC, 17:479-80, but no copy of it has been found in the collection of Committee at Headquarters papers located in PCC, item 39. There is, however, a copy of it in the Washington Papers, DLC, which was enclosed with Huntington to Washington, this date.
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JUNE 3, 1780
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